This is just lamestream media revenge. The Swift Boat veterans were in John Keary’s unit in Vietnam and knew first hand Kerry was unfit for command.
The difference is now we have outright lies about Romney. And the lamstream is thrilled.
The lamestream sees this as payback, the lies are payback … What a laugher. Anybody who thinks knows our anti-Colonialists anti-American Obama is unfit for the Presidency. Corporations are not people, it’s absurd. What are the unions, if they are not people in the eyes of courts? What are these leftists groups, the Sierra Club, the various global warming stooge groups, why does tyhis have to be explained to anyone. Is the Stock Market where stocks are traded?
Obama doesn’t care he has to lie, what’s he gonna do, tell you how great the economy is again? Hah, you know it’s not, our failing economy is suffering under Obama’s jackboots. Everyday I drive by the shuttered boarded up under-construction sites. Their rusting steel beams glistening in the sunshine, even a five year old knows the truth.
The idea of Swift Boating appears to have first been raised by CNN correspondent Jim Acosta during his interview with Romney on The Situation Room … Transcript:
MITT ROMNEY: They announced early on, one of their insiders said that they — their — their campaign was going to be based upon the strategy of — quote — “kill Romney,” end of quote. That’s what they’re doing. It’s disgusting. It’s demeaning. It’s something which I think the president should take responsibility for and stop.
JIM ACOSTA, CNN: And do you believe you’re being swiftboated in this campaign?
A few hours later on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman significantly elaborated on this theme:
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NARRATOR: When a president doesn’t tell the truth, how can we trust him to Romney’s companies were pioneers of shipping U.S. jobs overseas.
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even in the flood of negative ads pouring out of each side of this race, Democrats are hitting one target again and again and again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bain capital.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bain capital.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bain capital.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bain capital.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bain capital.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bain capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off of this plant.
FOREMAN: The White House clearly wants to portray Mitt Romney’s time at the helm of Bain Capital as a weak spot. In ad after ad, Democrats are suggesting Romney is a fat cat job outsourcer, an opportunistic financial predator, and a leader’s out of touch with the working class. Never mind that many of those claims appear to be backed with little or no evidence.
KEN GOLDSTEIN, PRESIDENT, CMAG-KANTAR MEDIA: The Obama campaign is absolutely doubling down on the Bain attack, no doubt about it. And if the work triple down existed, they would be doing that as well.
FOREMAN: Ken Goldstein is the political media analyst who believes President Obama was at one point looking to steal a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook, planning an optimistic, positive reelection campaign until economic troubles and weak poll numbers hit hard.
GOLDSTEIN: I think the Obama folks were hoping to run a campaign like “morning in America” in 1984. But the campaign I think they’re look at is much more the George W. Bush campaign in 2004.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The accusations that John Kerry…
FOREMAN: He’s talking about the swiftboat campaign, in which President Bush’s challenger John Kerry was demonized over what his campaign considered an attribute. His decorated service as a soldier in Vietnam. The swiftboat ads, backed by a group of pro-Bush veterans, questioned the Democratic challenger’s conduct in the war, his anti-war activities later and his patriotism.
(on camera): Kerry was slow to respond and never very effective in refuting their claims even though his critics offered little in the way of proof. He lost the election of course. And for many Democrats, swiftboating became a catch-all term for any unfair, untrue, personal assault on a candidate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Romney’s companies…
FOREMAN (voice-over): But if the president is troubled by the comparison of his Bain attacks to Republican swiftboating, he’s not showing it.
Irrespective of the veracity of the claims by the Swiftboat Vets, the term “swiftboating” has indeed become a pejorative on the Left and in the media.
For any news outlet to be accusing the sainted Obama of this is truly shocking.
